7.  The applicant was born in 1934 and lives in Nicosia.
8.  The applicant lived in her family home in Lapithos (the biggest village in the Kyrenia district of northern Cyprus) until 1963, when she married and moved to her husband's house in a neighbouring village. Her mother came from Sysklipos, another village near Lapithos, where she owned land. The applicant claimed to have acquired the ownership of the family property in the two villages, as well as a right to draw a certain amount of water from a spring in Sysklipos.
9.  The Government challenged the applicant's property claims, particularly as regarded the properties in Sysklipos, as they had evidence that it had belonged to other persons. The applicant replied that those other persons were her parents who had donated these properties to her.
10.  On 27 November 1973 the applicant applied to the Kyrenia Land Registry Office for a permit to divide one of her plots of land in Lapithos into sixteen building sites. She alleged that the issuing of the permit would have significantly increased the value of her land.
11.  However, this planning procedure was not completed because, due to the 1974 Turkish intervention, the applicant and her family had been forced to leave all their property and possessions and move to Limassol in southern Cyprus. The applicant was thereby deprived of her property rights, all her property being located in the area which was under the occupation and control of the Turkish military authorities. The latter had prevented her from having access to and using her property.
12.  Attached to her observations of 4 September 2002, the applicant produced a certificate of affirmation of ownership of Turkish-occupied immovable properties, issued on 12 August 2002 by the Departments of Lands and Surveys of the Republic of Cyprus, and an affidavit, signed by herself, in which she declared that she owned 8 pieces of land in Lapithos “all on the mountain slope, very suitable for building purposes”. According to the above mentioned certificate of affirmation of ownership, the following properties were owned by Mrs Iordanou Iordani Anthousa, daughter of Mr Polykerpos Panagiotou:
Lapithos village – Agia Paraskevi and Agia Anastasia:
(a) Land certificate no. 1613 of 22 April 1971, plot no. 199 of sheet/plan XI/22 (Mantres tou Kazeli), with a total extent of 4,683m²; share: whole; on this plot of land there was a small house for shepherds and two shelters for the animals;
(b) Land certificate no. 1459 of 27 April 1971, plot no. 331 of sheet/plan XI/23 (Persterkonas), with a total extent of 25,753 m²; share: whole; use: field with trees;
(c) Land certificate no. 2312 of 27 April 1971, plot no. 51 of sheet/plan XI/31 (Kaminia), with a total extent of 3,679 m²; share: whole; use: field with trees;
(d) Land certificate no. 1623 of 27 April 1971, plot no. 201 of sheet/plan XI/22 (Syrtaros), with a total extent of 16,723 m²; share: whole; use: field with trees;
(e) Sheet/plan 11/23W.1.E.2, plot no. 53; this plot comprised running water and was registered in the name of the applicant for the 1/120 share (equivalent to 3 hours continuous flow fortnightly every 15 days);
(f) Land certificate no. 2774 of 27 April 1971, plot no. 2 of sheet/plan XI/31 (Livadi tou Kolymbou), with a total extent of 89,457 m² (registered for 1/24 share in the name of the applicant); use: field;
(g) Land certificate no. 2744 of 27 April 1971, plot no. 133 of sheet/plan XI/30 (Kolymbes Livadiou), with a total extent of 110,704 m² (registered for 1/96 share in the name of the applicant); use: field;
(h) Land certificate no. 2760 of 27 April 1971, plot no. 1 of sheet/plan XI/31 (Livadi), with a total extent of 227,427 m² (registered for 1/96 share in the name of the applicant); use: field with trees;
Sysklipos village (according to a report attached to the applicant's observations, these properties were registered in the name of the applicant by declaration of gift from her mother Anastasia Polycarpou Panayiotou):
(i) Land certificate of 24 July 1985, plot no. 341 of sheet/plan XI/47 (Pappares), with a total extent of 21,424 m²; share: whole; use: field;
(l) Land certificate of 24 July 1985, plot no. 357 (united with plot no. 368) of sheet/plan XI/47 (Diplopotama), with a total extent of 9,031 m²; share: whole; use: field with trees;
(j) Land certificate of 24 July 1985, plot no. 370 of sheet/plan XI/47 (Diplopotama), with a total extent of 8,362 m²; share: whole; use: field.
13.  Following a request from the Court, in a sworn affidavit of 24 September 2009 the applicant declared that she was the daughter of Polykarpos Panayioti, who had died on 27 December 1975, and of Anastasia Panayiotou, who had died on 12 January 1989. Her mother's father name was Chistodoulos. As it was customary in Cyprus to call people by their first name, followed by their surname and by their father's or husband's name, her mother was also called Anastasia Christodoulou Panayiotou or Anastasia Polykarpou Panayiotou. Therefore, Anastasia Panayiotou and Anastasia Christodoulou were the same person. In support to her affidavit, the applicant produced a copy of her parents' death certificates and identity cards.
14.  She further produced the following documents:
- three certificates of affirmation of ownership of Turkish-occupied immovable properties issued on 15 September 2009 by the Republic of Cyprus, in which it was stated that the applicant was the owner of the properties described in paragraph 12 (i), (l) and (j) above;
- three search certificates concerning Turkish-occupied immovable properties issued on 15 September 2009 by the Republic of Cyprus, in which it was stated that the properties described in paragraph 12 (i), (l) and (j) above were transferred to the applicant on 24 July 1985 by Mrs Anastasia Panayiotou.